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Sep 15, 2008

1. I'm not a big fan of Julia Roberts. Not that I don't like her. I'm just not a big fan. Maybe I will be at some point in the future but probably not.

2. I think I'm middle-brow.

3. I've spent a lot of time updating my Facebook site recently. That surprised me but I like using it as a repository for my favourite quotations and links to videos and film clips. I changed most of the quotations a bit so I didn't put any names on them. (Now that I've had a run-in with the quotation police I don't want them coming after me).

4. I'm not a good conversationalist and I'm often bad with strangers. But Susan Strayer is going to come on my show and tell me what to do. Then maybe I'll talk exactly like her.

5. I've had a few hard drives that weren't backed up crash on me.

6. I have a lot of books I've never read. Too many. Like a ton.

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1. I read most of the James Bond novels when I was 12. In grade 9 wrote a book review of Moonraker in which I criticized the card game scene; the teacher said I didn't like it because I didn't understand Bridge.

2. I re-read a few of the Bond books many years later and I think I enjoyed them more the second time. (I hadn't read For Your Eyes Only until then. It's a bunch of short stories).

2. Sean Connery is the only James Bond I liked.

3. I liked Rosamund Pike in Die Another Day. Not at first glance but I thought about her after I saw the movie on TV.

5. Once, when I was in Jamaica, my aunt's mother watched the same videos over and over again. One was Moonraker and another was The Outlaw Josie Wales. She was around 90 at the time and although she had lived in Jamaica most of her life she had a very strong Chinese accent. I remember her saying, "Everyone wants to kill Josie Wales!" And she said Josie with the accent on the first "o" so that it was "jOsiewales".

6. Once I almost fell off a cliff.

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1. I have a friend who only listens to jazz and because of him I've seen a lot of famous bands I probably wouldn't have seen on my own. (I have another friend who loves golf. But I don't play golf).

2. When my (golfer) buddy and his wife go away, I take care of Max, their dog. I like him but I don't like having to walk him so much.

3. I play clubbyish every other Thursday night but I am, notoriously, the worst player there - really bad. I can't remember the cards that have gone out and sometimes my mind simply malfunctions and no one can believe what I've done. And, in fact, I can't believe it myself.

4. Everyone at the card game calls me Mikey

5. Great Expectations was my favourite novel for a long time. Then Anna Karenina

6. When I was in university, I was taught (in a course on Post-Industrial Society) that schizophrenia was caused when your parents put you in a double-bind. (We read The Politics of Experience by RD Laing).

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Feb 07, 2008

They're a pretty secular bunch too, judging from their responses to BW's question "Who's your favorite historical figure?" Percentage-wise, most said Winston Churchill. Not that there's anything wrong with that ...

Hey, dude, maybe we should start burning their records. PS: I know that it's politically incorrect to say (so I won't say it) but, looking at the names you've listed, none of them seem to be American. You're fave, for instance, Pasi Koivusaari, is obviously a Finn.